Joseph Dalton Hooker

Joseph Dalton Hooker was eight years the junior of Charles Darwin (1809-82) and lived twenty-nine years after Darwin’s death. He was, for a long period, the personal friend of Darwin and the frank critic of many of Darwin’s researches and of the botanical aspects of Darwinian theories. Hooker was a botanist and, since he had an extensive first-hand experience of many branches of botany, above all of plant taxonomy and phytogeography, it was naturally the botanical aspects of evolutionary problems which both interested him and concerning which he was best able to help Darwin. Such help was gratefully and fully acknowledged by Darwin, as is shown by published correspondence. Numerous letters passed between Darwin and Hooker and the latter visited his friend at Down and stayed there for periods of varying length. A considerable amount of living material was obviously supplied from Kew for the later botanical experiments Darwin carried out at Down. The assistance given by Hooker in the accumulation of facts and in criticism of theories preparatory to the publication of the Origin of species and later works of Darwin, his presenting (with Lyell) and reading Darwin’s communication to the Linnean Society of London on 1 July 1858 introducing the theory of natural selection, and his influence in gaining the speedy general acceptance of the theory of evolution are well known and it is not necessary to consider them here in much detail. It is proposed, instead, to outline very briefly the salient facts in the life of J.D. Hooker and then to devote the major part of this essay to a consideration of the development of his views on the problems of species, phytogeography, and evolution. In part at least, this means considering the influence of Darwin on Hooker but, from a wider viewpoint, it is possible to form some conception of the clarifying and unifying effects of the acceptance of the general theory of evolution on biological thought.

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Joseph Dalton Hooker

JAMA ◽

10.1001/jama.242.21.2338 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 242 (21) ◽

pp. 2338-2338

Author(s):

R. A. Kyle

Keyword(s):

Joseph Dalton Hooker

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From Specimen to System

Ecological Form ◽

10.5422/fordham/9780823282128.003.0009 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 161-181

Author(s):

Lynn Voskuil

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Global Distribution ◽

Travel Narrative ◽

Global Theory ◽

Systematic Botany ◽

Botanical Species ◽

The Sublime ◽

System P ◽

Joseph Dalton Hooker

The discipline of nineteenth-century botany was central both to the British imperial project and to the development of global theory. This article shows how the work of botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911) advanced certain concepts of globalization by exploring scale relationships in two mid-century texts—a systematic botany, Flora Indica (1855), and a travel narrative, Himalayan Journals (1854)—and by analyzing in particular the methodologies that link individual botanical species and their global distribution. In doing so, he drew upon tropes of the sublime and related aesthetic techniques to raise crucial hermeneutical questions and to perform an important scale critique. His contributions underscore the need for new scale critiques in the humanities today and the recognition that such critiques have significant antecedents in the work of nineteenth-century writers and scientists.

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Pioneer Plant Geography: The Phytogeographical Researches of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker

Geographical Journal ◽

10.2307/1791557 ◽

1954 ◽

Vol 120 (2) ◽

pp. 238

Author(s):

P. B. ◽

W. B. Turrill

Keyword(s):

Plant Geography ◽

Pioneer Plant ◽

Joseph Dalton Hooker

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The Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker

Geographical Journal ◽

10.2307/1779441 ◽

1918 ◽

Vol 52 (5) ◽

pp. 325

Author(s):

E. A. Parkyn ◽

Joseph Dalton Hooker ◽

Leonard Huxley

Keyword(s):

Joseph Dalton Hooker

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The Illustrated Rhododendron: Their Classification Portrayed Through the Artwork of Curtis’s Botanical Magazine. By Pat Halliday; illustrated by John Curtis, Sydenham Edwards, Walter Hood Fitch, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Christabel King, Mary Mendum, Valerie Price, Rodella Purves, Stella Ross‐Craig, Matilda Smith, Lilian Snelling, Margaret Stones, Wendy Walsh, and Ann Webster. Portland (Oregon): Timber Press. $69.95. v + 268 p; ill.; no index. ISBN: 0–88192–510–1. 2001.Coffee: Recent Developments. World Agriculture Series. Edited by R J Clarke and, O G Vitzthum. Oxford: Blackwell Science. $144.95. ix + 257 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 0–632–05553–7. 2001.

The Quarterly Review of Biology ◽

10.1086/343618 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 77 (1) ◽

pp. 65-66

Author(s):

Mike Clifford

Keyword(s):

Recent Developments ◽

Joseph Dalton Hooker ◽

World Agriculture ◽

Botanical Magazine

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Updated nomenclature and taxonomic status of the plants of Bangladesh included in Hook. f., the Flora of British India: Volume-II

Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy ◽

10.3329/bjpt.v19i2.13133 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 173-190 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

M. Enamur Rashid ◽

M. Atiqur Rahman

Keyword(s):

Taxonomic Status ◽

British India ◽

Plant Taxon ◽

Joseph Dalton Hooker

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker in his second volume of the Flora of British India included a total of 2328 species in 416 genera under 28 natural orders (= families) of which 201 species in 104 genera under 20 natural orders are determined to have been recorded from the area now in Bangladesh. These taxa are listed with their updated nomenclature and taxonomic status as per ICBN following Cronquists system of plant classification. The current nomenclatural treatment revealed a total of 200 species in 109 genera under 25 families to be recognized from the area of Bangladesh. The recorded area and the name of specimens collector, as in the protologue of the Flora of British India, are also provided. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjpt.v19i2.13133 Bangladesh J. Plant Taxon. 19(2): 173-190, 2012 (December)

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